Hua Hsu

Hua Hsu is a staff writer at the New Yorker and a professor of literature at Bard College. His first book, A Floating Chinaman: Fantasy and Failure Across the Pacific, published by Harvard University Press in 2016, explored how a series of artistic, political, and personal rivalries shaped American literary impressions of China in the interwar years. His second book, Stay True, published by Doubleday in 2022, is a memoir about friendship and grief, immigrant culture, and the nineties. He previously served on the editorial board of A New Literary History of America (HUP, 2009) and currently serves on the executive boards of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and Critical Minded, an initiative to support cultural critics of color. He previously held fellowships at New America and the Dorothy and Lewis Cullman Center at the New York Public Library.